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Pretty hard going,very low. Frustrating on the drys,top of beat changed so much with winter floods,not as nice to fish,massive move of the river bed and stone,
6 fish,biggest about 2 lbs,in fast run below bridge.
Otter holt upper beat under tree was stinking with otter smell,it toke my breath away when wading passed it.

6 Trout

Access very difficult either side and with several livestock fences across the river making movement upstream from the parking space bridge unrealistically difficult. Not worth fishing - and that's not because we didn't catch.

1 Grayling

Weather and river looked promising and in the first 30 yards of Lyepole I caught 3 fish (1 grayling and 2 trout) using French Leader and nymphs. Unfortunately catch rate rapidly declined and it became a bit of a struggle after that. Above the bridge switched to the duo and caught one more trout on a PTN, however after a savage take by a trout on the sedge indicator I was using, I moved on to dries and caught one more grayling and two trout on sedges. Only two small hatches of fly seen and it was during these that the dries were taken. Overall a good day’s fishing.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

6 Chub

A1

4 Trout

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

I fished from midday until it was dark - which was late on this, the longest day of the year.
River was fairly coloured, but a good height and definitely fishable.
No sign of any fish for the first couple of hours as I worked my way down the beat, then a stretch of river with several fish rising kept me entertained for the rest of the day. Obstinately sticking to dry flies, I worked my way through my fly box and managed to convince a few fish to investigate and had about 5 takes, only one of which resulted in a fish in the net: a nice 11 WBT.

A variety of different insects emerging over the course of the day, including quite a few yellow duns and a lone mayfly.
Lots of fun trying to outsmart the fish, but mostly they won!

1 Trout

Llyn Idwal, Nothing caught. Overcast with sunny spells and gusty winds at times.

please see my comments on 19th June about the swims. Fishing wise it was Ok for a river that was low, I only fished a few hours and had a Barbel of 9-11 and a Chub of 5-12. Canoeists became a problem quite early in the day, managed to hook one but it got away.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other